The Sacrifice (George Herbert Poem)
Oh all ye, who pass by, whose eyes and mind To worldly things are sharp, but to me blind; To ...
Oh all ye, who pass by, whose eyes and mind To worldly things are sharp, but to me blind; To ...
Ye distant spires, ye antique towers, That crown the watery glade, Where grateful Science still adores Her Henry's holy shade; ...
NO easy matter 'tis to hold, Against its owner's will, the fleece Who troubled by the itching smart Of Cupid's ...
NEAR Rome, of yore, close to the Florence road, Was seen a humble innkeeper's abode; Small sums were charged; few ...
WHEN Cupid with his dart, would hearts assail, The rampart most secure is not the VEIL; A husband better will ...
'Tis morning; and the sun, with ruddy orb Ascending, fires th' horizon: while the clouds, That crowd away before the ...
I The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. The vault yet blazes with the sun Writhing above ...
I The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. The vault yet blazes with the sun Writhing above ...
Abandon the past Throw away the baggage Suffer no more. avast(stop now) Breakaway from the chains and shackles Which from ...
I THINK we are too ready with complaint In this fair world of God's. Had we no hope Indeed beyond ...
We have no aspiration vain For paradise Utopian, And here in our sun-happy Spain, Though man exploit his fellow man, ...
In youth I longed to paint The loveliness I saw; And yet by dire constraint I had to study Law. ...
THEY tell me, lady, that to-day On that unknown Australian strand - Some time ago, so far away - Another ...
"WHEN will my troubled soul have rest?" The beauteous LEWIN cried; As thro' the murky shade of night With frantic ...
"HERE POPE FIRST SUNG!" O, hallow'd Tree ! Such is the boast thy bark displays; Thy branches, like thy Patron's ...
(After Pushkin) Look at the bare wood hand-waxed floor and long White dressing-gown, the good child's writing-desk And passionate cold ...
God knows how our neighbor managed to breed His great sow: Whatever his shrewd secret, he kept it hid In ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
O'RE the smooth enameld green Where no print of step hath been, Follow me as I sing, And touch the ...
In this Monody the author bewails a learned Friend, unfortunately drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish Seas, ...
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